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🚨Next week the UK will host EU leaders in a crucial summit to review the terms of our most important trade deal. Reports suggest progress on defence, food standards & youth mobility. But our new polling shows voters want Keir Starmer to go even further...👇1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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❓Did you know this?👇 For every shipment of mussels a fisher in the UK wants to send to the EU, a vet has to sign 17(!) separate documents by hand. "Miss the deadline at Calais, the entire catch goes to waste." @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

Nick Thomas-Symonds is right to call this out. From major retailers like M&S to local producers in Edinburgh, businesses are sounding the alarm about the cost and complexity of trading with the EU. These are problems we can fix, but only with a better deal and a more pragmatic approach.

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"I'm unhappy senior politicians are using language reminiscent of [Enoch] Powell and I'm sorry Starmer used some of those phrases." Lord @alfdubs.bsky.social on the "regrettable" language used in the PM's 'island of strangers' speech. @maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

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www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Tuesday he is placing a hold on all trump Justice Department nominees as he seeks answers on the administration's plan to accept a luxury jet from Qatar to be used as Air Force One...

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There's a lie going around (also promoted now by the Starmer government) that a major global economy like the UK can function without foreign workers. It's complete nonsense. That's why adult politicians created the EU Single Market with Freedom of Movement. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

🦋 Governor Pritzker is right to be concered - the Registry is for 'Chronic Disease & Autism Research' not just #Autism RFK Jr. data collection helps 'Outside' researchers by giving them access to 'Comprehensive' patient data & health records for a 'Broad Coverage' of US A #RFKJr NIH presentation 🦋

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Humbled to meet with associations of Valencia flood victims and their families. I am grateful to them for having shared their stories. The EU stands in solidarity, supporting recovery today and resilience for tomorrow. This tragedy must guide our preparations for the future.

submitted 19 hours ago • 12 comments

Am about to go live on @mrjamesob.bsky.social to talk about Democracy for Sale’s latest scoop, on Palantir’s NHS data platform

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

This guy is in the running 4 2028 & that's a really good thing!

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Our response to this government white paper on immigration

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Sometimes peace is just one sentence away.

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www.politico.com/magazine/sto... Miller’s uncle warned in 2018. “I have watched with dismay & increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country"

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

🗣️ People want solutions, not division. HOPE not hate polling last year found that 72% of people want the government to do more to improve cohesion between communities.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Marina is spot on : “I can’t believe they are making it more difficult for the care sector to hire people!”

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Starmer on 31st Jan 2020: “We need to make the wider case on immigration. We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them. Low wages, poor housing, poor public services, are not the fault of people who come here: they’re political failure…” Starmer today legitimising the far right position:

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"Only 82 per cent of people now believe Ireland should remain in the EU - a two percentage point drop from last year's figure." So GB News paints this as "Irexit looms". 🤣 A two percent drop! From 84% to 82%! News for the desperate & data-illiterate.

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

The Pope on jailed journalists, at his first press conference: "The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

submitted 1 day ago • 176 comments

Brilliant achievement! Now MPs must consider the petition for a debate in Parliament - it couldn’t be more urgent to stop fossil fuel ads creating a social licence of trust & acceptability

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Pandering to Reform over care workers is grubby and cheap. Care homes are reliant on overseas staff. Without them, many will need to close their doors, leaving families and communities to suffer the consequences. Read, like, share, subscribe below. 👇 substack.com/@nicolakelly...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

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Fox Business analyst.

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1 in 5 of the UK’s care workforce have a non-British passport. Starmer would have us believe these carers are the “squalid” result of a “failed experiment”. I say they do vital, necessary, humane, skilled work and they are worth their weight in gold.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

All of us.... every single last one of us... are descended from immigrants. And without it, this country would just be a bunch of uninhabited islands on the edge of the world. Everything that built this country... and everything it is... springs from that. And we should embrace it, not decry it.

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.

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Starmer: this is "incalculable damage"

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A new refugee crisis is exploding on the border between Chad and Sudan. Partly thanks to US cuts, few resources are available to help. Photographs from @lynseyaddario.bsky.social (with my introduction) www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

I wish I believed these issues had been thought through. But it shows every sign of half-arsed-flappy-hands-Westminster-headline-panic thoughtlessness.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

When govts stop panicking and announcing policy to “challenge” Nigel effing Farage, we may stand a chance of fixing the mess that Nigel effing Farage helped to make. Until then, we will stay stuck in this populist dead end, loudly blowing our dog whistle at the world and wondering why nothing works.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

🔥 Yet another superb video by @tldrjack.bsky.social on why the EU economy is in a good place right now. Add to this the incoming brain drain from Trump (including global 'brain diversion'), ramping up defence spend, Canadian & UK partnerships, Draghi reforms - and you have a powerful combination.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A few new season #roses for #CheeringUpMondays Lady of Shalott, Penelope, Buff Beauty, Alberic Barbier. A sprinkling of rain here, we need more! Have a good week everyone, take care, stay safe. 🌱

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One week until the UK-EU agenda. Probably time for plenty of media pieces about last minute haggling, but the EU has put out a preview and... it looks remarkably similar to what I've been predicting since February. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/...

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It’s hot girl summer, and more importantly May’s Urban Safari daaaaay A glorious morning to take a sold out group up the Ouseburn. All that would complete this is an ice cold glass of cider and bad football banter. Fingers crossed for both today Have a lovely Sunday!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The Guardian: Lib Dems launch ‘Reform watch’ to monitor party in local government www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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“Should the guide I chuse Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way” William Wordsworth

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British cancer patients are being denied life-saving drugs and trials of revolutionary treatments are being derailed by the red tape and extra costs brought on by Brexit, a leaked report warns. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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www.theneweuropean.co.uk/dale-vince-f...

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“If this was any other country, would we want anything to do with it?” As the UK secures a trade deal with the US, @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social outlines the other activities of the Trump administration this week.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

The government’s abject surrender in the immigration conversation will not necessarily lose them votes. But it won’t win any either because a) for good or for ill, the small boats are the really emotive issue & b) people who simply resent immigrants will always favour Farage. He’s one of their own.

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‘Catherine’s Rose’. Named for HRH Princess of Wales by the RHS. Bred by Harkness Roses. A contribution from the sale of Catherine’s Rose will go to The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. #roses 🌱 roses.co.uk

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The pit came at a time colliery villages were taking on their own vernacular, when clubs and clubs were built to impress rather than making do in old and timid rows. You could argue this is the case of the Station Hotel, which is now demolished alongside the station it’s named after.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Europe Day

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Sir Graham Watson in answer to question points out need for politicians including Rachel Reeves to be honest about the economic realities of #Brexit. Mark Leonard points to "black hole" in finances. Also of greater need for more cooperation in the face of expected rapid changes expected from AI etc

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First of many to vote in our poll in Ealing on this glorious day

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